There’s a skatepark near me that is still bumping. All ages, all times of day. There is even this guy who lives in his car that comes out an practices DJing out there. It’s an awesome little community.

This writeup is such an interesting perspective of social media.

It’s the medium for the human hive mind. It’s civilization’s consciousness. It’s beyond any individual’s control or comprehension, and it exists for advertising…

This honestly reads like a bad commercial you’d hear on the radio.

That doesn’t really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.

Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.

I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.

Might be a stupid question, but I’d there a GNU license equivalent to patents? Could you patent something that could be used for free, but not used by a company in a for-profit matter?

I usually do quad stretches, forward bend, downward dog, childs pose, pretzel, and figure 4. I think the figure 4 has had the largest impact loosening up the glute to knee connection.

Do leg stretches every day. Most knee pain is associated with certain muscles overpowering others in rest state. Stretch them out to reset that balance. It’s worked wonders for me, started seeing results in ~2weeks.

I mean, even with a union, if a company crumbles the laborers are out of a job.

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Well, not that shocked…

Was this the root cause??? Hahahaha

The interesting thing about the court is their power comes from our belief in their legitimacy. They don’t have any repercussions if the executive and legislature completely ignores their rulings.

It’s a double edged sword. If they allow this to happen, democracy crumbles under a new admin. If they do anything to deter authoritarians getting into power is technically anti-democratic too.

Either this admin undermines the belief in democracy by stopping an authoritarian administration to participate in elections or they allow the authoritarians to run and hope the electorate aren’t complete idiots (in a voting system rigged towards the authoritarians via the electoral college).

But we can’t get a database for firearms?

Yay! We get to rename the drink “Irish Car Bomb” to “MAGA Tantrum”. At least something good came out of all this.

Fair point.

Yes, I’m being nit-picky. All I was trying to say was the original phrasing was “democracy at large says an insurrectionist cannot run for office” which is untrue. It is a US implementation of democracy specific case.

Another country could have no restrictions on candidates and it would be completely democratic for an insurrectionist to run for office.

Removing a proven insurrectionist from the ballot is DEMOCRACY following the rule of law in the United States. Exempting individuals from the rule of law is anti-democratic.

All people having representation and subject to the rule of law are fundamental principles of democracy.

I don’t think the DC to DC conversion was adequately discussed in this article. If you were to implement a parallel DC and AC system in your home, you would need all of your DC devices to run on the same voltage, or you would need to convert them from the supply voltage to the useable voltage. The most efficient way to do a DC to DC conversion requires converting to AC to change the voltage, then converting the new voltage back to DC. If your goal is to reduce losses, these conversions would be much more efficient if you started with an AC source.

The only time you have big efficiency gains is when you’re supplying the exact DC voltage required by the device. In a practical house this would mean having a few different DC feeds all at different voltages. That means more cabling and more electrical protection equipment per voltage.

I love the idea that we have a DC source and DC devices, why go to AC in-between? It’s a compelling thought, but the reason is it’s a good general system that is robust and pretty efficient independent of individual situations. Can you make a more optimized system per house taking into account the amount of energy it took to extract the metal for the additional wires and the savings on each conversion device? Yes, of course. Is it practical on a large scale? I don’t think so.

Trump: “I have a Jewish friend that gave me Mein Kampf.”

Editor: “Close Mr Trump, but the Friend was not Jewish the book was not Mein Kampf.”

News: “Trump had a friend.”

Me: “Did anybody fact check this? … Well, I’ll be damned…”